What Doctors Don't Tell YouAbout 10 per cent of blood supplies in North America and Europe are autologous, which means they are to be used only by the donor. In these times of AIDS, with fears of infected blood, this statis ...
Those who thought they had escaped infection from blood transfusions by storing their own blood will need to think again. Doctors have discovered that even autologous blood, as it is known, can tr ...
Hospitals should restrict their use of blood transfusions with critically ill patients as this will probably increase their chances of surviving. ...
The UK has published guidelines on the use of autologous blood transfusions where patients are given back their own blood, which they earlier donated in advance of a planned operation (BMJ, 11 De ...
In WDDTY vol 5 no 4, , we reported that a third of people in Britain are given the wrong blood for transfusion. ...
Doctors have found a way of taking more blood from a patient awaiting surgery so that a donor's blood need not be given. The autologous transfusion (the receiving of your own blood) has become mor ...
The following are tried and tested alternatives to blood transfusion during various procedures. If you or a loved one is due to undergo surgery or give birth, and you don't wish to have a blood t ...
A story published without fanfare in a recent issue of the British Medical Journal (see facing story, this page) revealed the astonishing statistic that one third of all people who have had trans ...
The blood transfusion is a standard procedure in our hospitals, and many of us regard it as our social duty to give blood. Around 2.5 million units of blood are collected in the UK every year, and around half is used during elective and emergency...
Drugs given during surgery to reduce blood loss and so lessen the need for transfusion may be largely ineffective and actually do harm. ...
